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Author	Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
Title	The historie of the world in five bookes ... / by Sir Walter Ralegh, Knight.
Publication Info	[London : Printed for R. Best, Jo. Place & Sam. Cartwright ..., 1652]

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Descript	[65], 555 [i.e. 559], 669 [i.e. 666], [55] p., 18 leaves of plates : maps.
Note	Title vignette: portrait of the author engraved by S. Passe after C. Holland. Added t.p. engraved by R. Elstracke.
	Books 3-5 have separate paging.
	Forms part one only of a projected history in three parts; no more published. Cf. p. 669 [i.e. 666]
	Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Contents	(from t.p.) 1. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham -- 2. Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon -- 3. From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon -- 4. From the raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the race of Antigonus -- 5. From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon.

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Descript	[65], 555 [i.e. 559], 669 [i.e. 666], [55] p., 18 leaves of plates : maps.
Note	Title vignette: portrait of the author engraved by S. Passe after C. Holland. Added t.p. engraved by R. Elstracke.
	Books 3-5 have separate paging.
	Forms part one only of a projected history in three parts; no more published. Cf. p. 669 [i.e. 666]
	Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Contents	(from t.p.) 1. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham -- 2. Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon -- 3. From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon -- 4. From the raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the race of Antigonus -- 5. From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon.

Subject	History, Ancient.
Descript	[65], 555 [i.e. 559], 669 [i.e. 666], [55] p., 18 leaves of plates : maps.
Note	Title vignette: portrait of the author engraved by S. Passe after C. Holland. Added t.p. engraved by R. Elstracke.
	Books 3-5 have separate paging.
	Forms part one only of a projected history in three parts; no more published. Cf. p. 669 [i.e. 666]
	Reproduction of original in Huntington Library.
Contents	(from t.p.) 1. Intreating of the beginning and first ages of the same, from the creation unto Abraham -- 2. Of the times from the birth of Abraham to the destruction of the Temple of Salomon -- 3. From the destruction of Jerusalem, to the time of Philip of Macedon -- 4. From the raigne of Philip of Macedon, to the establishing of that Kingdome in the race of Antigonus -- 5. From the settled rule of Alexanders successors in the East, untill the Romans (prevailing over all) made conquest of Asia and Macedon.
Alt author	Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647.
	Elstracke, Renold, active 1590-1630.

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